Miguel de Unamuno: Philosophy of action, irracionalism, fascism in the italian quixotism
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Abstract
From de beginning of the twentieth century, the The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho was Unamuno's most read text in Italy. It developed an interpretation (Italian Quixotism) that saw in Unamuno's Quixote the hero of philosophy of action, the knight of idealism in eternal fight against modernity, positivism and secularism. During the fascist dictatorship —also because of Unamuno's interventionist propaganda during WWI— this mixture between irracionalism and nationalism matched perfectly the ideologies of the authors close to the fascism, and Unamuno, despite his opposition to Primo de Rivera and his support to the Second Republic, kept on being a model of patriotism, the symbol of a typical and tradicional Spain: an old catholic writer who just by mistake could join the Republic.
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Giovanni Amendola, fascism, Italy, irracionalism, Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Papini, pragmatism, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Quijote, quijotismo, Quixote, quixotism, Salamanca, Miguel de Unamuno, La Voce
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